1601

This article is about the year 1601. For the number, see 1601 (number). For the work by Mark Twain, see 1601 (Mark Twain).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1570s  1580s  1590s  – 1600s –  1610s  1620s  1630s
Years:	1598 1599 1600 – 1601 – 1602 1603 1604

1601 by topic:

Arts and Science

Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors - State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1601 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1601 MDCI
Ab urbe condita	2354
Armenian calendar	1050 ԹՎ ՌԾ
Assyrian calendar	6351
Bengali calendar	1008
Berber calendar	2551
English Regnal year	43 Eliz. 1 – 44 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar	2145
Burmese calendar	963
Byzantine calendar	7109–7110
Chinese calendar	庚子年 (Metal Rat) 4297 or 4237     — to — 辛丑年 (Metal Ox) 4298 or 4238
Coptic calendar	1317–1318
Discordian calendar	2767
Ethiopian calendar	1593–1594
Hebrew calendar	5361–5362
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1657–1658
- Shaka Samvat	1523–1524
- Kali Yuga	4702–4703
Holocene calendar	11601
Igbo calendar	601–602
Iranian calendar	979–980
Islamic calendar	1009–1010
Japanese calendar	Keichō 6 (慶長６年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3934
Minguo calendar	311 before ROC 民前311年
Thai solar calendar	2143–2144

February 8: Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex.

Matteo Ricci.

1601 (MDCI) was a common year starting on Monday (dominical letter G) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday (dominical letter D) of the Julian calendar, the 1601st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 601st year of the 2nd millennium, the 1st year of the 17th century, and the 2nd year of the 1600s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1601 is 10 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929. January 1 of this year (1601-01-01) is used as the base of file dates and of Active Directory Logon dates by Microsoft Windows. It is also the date from which ANSI dates are counted and were adopted by the American National Standards Institute for use with COBOL and other computer languages. This epoch is the beginning of the 400-year Gregorian leap-year cycle within which digital files first existed; the last year of any such cycle is the only leap year whose year number is divisible by 100. All versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system from Windows 95 onward count units of one hundred nanoseconds from this epoch.

Events

January–June

• January 1 – The first day of the 17th century.
• January 17 – Treaty of Lyon: France gains Bresse, Bugey and Gex from Savoy, ceding Saluzzo in exchange.
• February 8 – Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, longtime favorite of Queen Elizabeth I of England, rebels against the queen; his revolt is quickly crushed.
• February 25 – Robert Devereux is beheaded.
• Spring – Possible first performance of William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet.

July–December

• December 24 (Julian Calendar; January 3, 1602, according to the Gregorian Calendar used by the Irish and Spanish forces in the battle) – The Battle of Kinsale ends the siege of Kinsale, Ireland (begun in autumn 1601).

Date unknown

• Dutch troops attack the Portuguese in Malacca.
• The Jesuit Matteo Ricci becomes the first European to enter the Forbidden City in Beijing, China, during the Ming Dynasty.
• A bad harvest occurs in the Tsardom of Russia, due to a rainy summer, causing the Russian famine of 1601–1603.
• Russian famine of 1601–03 killed about two million people
• By 1601 - Martin Möller is accused of Crypto-Calvinism.

Births

• January 8 – Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Spanish prose writer (d. 1658)
• May – Spencer Compton, 2nd Earl of Northampton (d. 1643)
• May 2 – Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit scholar (d. 1680)
• August 17 – Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (d. 1665)
• August 22 – Georges de Scudéry, French novelist, dramatist and poet (d. 1667)
• September 13 – Jan Brueghel the Younger, Flemish painter (d. 1678)
• September 22 – Anna of Austria, queen of Louis XIII of France and regent (d. 1666)
• September 27 – King Louis XIII of France (d. 1643)
• date unknown
  • William Coddington, first governor of Rhode Island (d. 1678)
  • Jacques Gaffarel, French librarian and astrologer (d. 1681)
• probable
  • Adrian Scrope, English regicide (d. 1660)
  • François Tristan l'Hermite, French dramatist (d. 1655)
  • Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worcester (d. 1667)

Deaths

• January 11 – Scipione Ammirato, Italian historian (b. 1531)
• January 19 – Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English statesman (b. 1534)
• February 7 – Martin Garzez, Aragonese-born 53rd Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (b. 1526)
• February 25 – Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, English politician (b. 1566)
• February 27 – Anne Line, English Catholic martyr (b. c. 1563)
• April 10 – Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet and soldier of fortune (b. 1562)
• May 19 – Costanzo Porta, Italian composer (b. 1528)
• August 9 – Mihai Viteazul, Prince of Wallachia (b. 1558)
• September 7 – John Shakespeare, English glover, father of William Shakespeare (b. 1529)
• October 24 – Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer (b. 1546)
• November 16 – Charles Neville, 6th Earl of Westmorland, exiled English nobleman (b. 1542)
• date unknown
  • Girolamo Dalla Casa, Italian composer
  • Ogawa Suketada, Japanese daimyo (b. 1549)